Overall a solid story with great narration work by Michael Hall in the audiobook, but I don't quite get the hype. This is my first Stephen King novel and while I generally enjoyed the writing and how atmospheric the world-building is, I don't think there's anything particularly outstanding about how he tackles grief here. While the story unsettled me a bit, I wasn't as scared as I wanted to be either. I'm not usually a prude when it comes to sexual content, but I thought some of the descriptions here were unnecessarily sexual and very male gazey. I'm not even sure whether they showed how certain characters were simply mesnt to be unlikeable or the writing just didn't age well. Either way, I am still interested in reading more of King's work, so I'll take any recommendations for my next King read.